The samurai from the early medieval time from Japan, and the knights from medieval Europe had a lot of similarities, and a lot of differences, which I’m going to be discussing. My essay will be talking about how the samurais are more prepared and can handle things under pressure. Some of the things I’m going to discuss in this essay is, which group's training was more effective for preparing warriors and, which group was better prepared for physical and mental trials of battles and war. The samurai from the early medieval time are more effective when it comes to preparing for battles. Not only do samurais prepare physically, they prepare mentally to. The samurais where more prepared mentally and physically. Japanese general Shiba Yoshimasa
Both documents said that the knight would join his/her’s master into duty and a samurai would live by Bushido which notes loyalty. A difference they have between them is that the Samurai studied Kendo with bamboo sticks while the Knights didn’t. According to Document A, it said, “The young warriors studied Kendo (the art of fencing with
The knight had to change their armor because of the new weapons, and for more protection the knight had changed their armor to covering their whole body so their foot, their head, and their legs. The samurai had armor that had iron scales tied together, lacquered, and then bound into armor plates with silk or leather cords.(I got my information in document D) they also had their right arm free so they can draw their bow faster. The samurai training started out with childhood school with unique combination of physical training, poetry training and spiritual training. When they were young they studied kendo the art of fencing, with bamboo sticks. The moral code of the samurai, and zen buddhism.
This shows that Samurai would be able to be more agile and move around quicker than the knights would be. Even though the knights have such a heavy amount of armor it could help them because it would protect them from getting hit.
Nihal Lalwani BBE 29 October 2014 8 History Essay Term 4 Assignment Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868) and Medieval Europe (590-1500) both grew in two separate sides of the world but both of them are similar in ways such as how they were run, their architecture, their warriors and the society. In discussing whether these two civilisations are similar, the research has led me to believe that these two civilisations are partly similar. There are many similarities between Japanese and Medieval European Castles such as what were they used for and how they worked. Medieval European Castles are similar to Japanese castles as they are used for similar reasons and architecture such as the castles had high walls for protection against arrows, both of them were used as outposts by respective lords of each civilisation (Friar, 2003. P.47).
From completely different areas of the known world, two of the greatest groups of warriors are formed. Each trained-for-battle group, according to the Overview, “...who swore oaths of loyalty to noble lords and fought to the death to defend them in battle” spent years learning how to kill. The samurai and knights had many similarities and differences in terms of their training, armor, and codes. For both classes of warriors, training started when four or five. The types of training for samurai and knights included both physical and spiritual aspects.
In this case the Japan and Europe are being classified. The samurais and knights are more alike than different mostly because of the social positions in their communities when they are classified on the social pyramids of Japan for the Samurai and Europe for the Knight. In one of the documents I have read (Document A) it shows the Classification for Japan and Europe. The Samurai and the Knight are both classified in the middle of each pyramid underneath the Shogun and the King but above the peasants in both societies. Also in Document B with Catharina Blomberg as the source it talks about being loyal to their lords.
Not much of the population were Samurai, in fact 7-8% of the population were Samurai’s (Wikipedia, n.d). Therefore, there are many strategies that Europe and Japan
Another piece of evidence, in the warrior video it says, “ The samurai were very fast and good with their weapon.” The samurai were trained to use their many weapons. They were also trained to react quickly in
Saigō is the “last samurai” in both Ravina’s book and in Zwick’s movie. The main question remains “was Saigō the last samurai “or is it simply a good title for his deep attentiveness to the “way of the warrior”? Algren acts as if he is the last Samurai, in the movie with the Saigō. Based on historical events there was no Algren and there was a deeper reflection on how Saigō became such a charismatic warrior. This paper will make comparisons from the book and the movie to decipher accurate characteristics and parallels from both the film and the book.
W DID THE MARRIAGES TAKE PLACE DURING THE EDO PERIOD Most of the time marriages during the Edo period were arranged by the elders whose opinion was considered to be better and more important the the preference of the people who were getting married. The process of match making was referred to as Omiai, which though was acceptable to the commoners, was resented by the Leaders or samurai as they considered it beneath their honour to evaluate girls and be infatuated by them. Among the higher class Samurai such as Daimyo and Shogun , if both the families belonged to the same class, the parents and the elders in the family decided among themselves, if they had children of marriageable age.
In Document C1, which was adapted from Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire, it says that children began training to become samurai by learning swordsmanship through fencing with bamboo sticks, which is also known as the art of Kendo. Since the samurai had practiced wielding a sword and fighting with longer than the knight, if the battle had devolved into a sword fight, the samurai would be the victor. It also says that in the same document that, “In their schooling they had physical training.” On the flipside, the knights had not received as harsh training as the samurai, mainly being a squire for a knight and learning from them, and squires were much older than the samurai-in-training who were children. And while the knights did start their training at 4 and 5, the beginning of their training focused on riding a horse (which also had to wear armor because of ranged weapons, meaning that even the horse was slow).
The three similarities between samurai and knights are moral codes, training, and their ranking in feudalism. Moral codes are the first way that the two military figures are similar to each other. In Yamaga Soko’s “The Way of the Samurai,” and Thomas Malroy’s “Le Morte d’ Arthur,” it states that both knights and samurai cannot disobey his or her master (Doc. E) This is important because it shows one similarity between Japan’s swordsmen and Europe’s knights.
The majority of resources we have regarding the samurai are myths and legends. They tend to exaggerate both the heroic as well as the faulty characteristics of the characters whom they describe. This helps these stories to get across messages about features that people both should and also should not seek to emulate; through this, these stories exemplify the key characteristics of the samurai to varying degrees. Three key qualities of the legendary Japanese warrior that are portrayed most strongly in Legends of the Samurai are an appreciation of beauty, an omnipresent sense of alertness, and a possession of self.
In medieval times, the toughest warriors arose from the dirt that made up Europe and Japan. Knights from Europe and samurais from Japan were unstoppable. Each group had strength, courage and loyalty, they were the best soldiers of their time. In medieval Europe and Japan, knights and samurais were alike due to their training styles, social structure,
Samurai (侍?) were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan. In Japanese, they are usually referred to as bushi (武士?, [bu.ɕi]) or buke (武家?). According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning "to wait upon" or "accompany persons" in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau. In both countries the terms were nominalized to mean "those who serve in close attendance to the nobility", the pronunciation in Japanese changing to saburai.